Wilmington police arrest 2 after fatal home invasion in Browntown

Police say Ira Brown was killed while he was attempting a robbery. (Photo: Wilmington police)

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (2/4/2016) Two men were arrested today in the wake of a home invasion last month that left one man dead and four others wounded by gunfire, Wilmington police said this evening.

The incident happened Jan. 11 in the 900 block of Brown St. in the Browntown area.

Police said the homicide victim, 20-year-old Ira Brown, and Kaheel Parker, 21, of Wilmington, had both forcefully entered the occupied home in a robbery attempt when gunfire broke out.

Brown died later at Christiana Hospital in Stanton.

Parker had been in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds at St. Francis Hospital the day of the shooting but was released and turned himself in to police today.

He is being booked on charges of first-degree attempted robbery, three counts of first-degree assault, possession of a firearm during commission of a felony and by a person prohibited, home invasion, first-degree burglary and conspiracy.